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Boerma, Tessel; Wijnen, Frank; Leseman, Paul; Blom, Elma – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Grammatical morphology is often a locus of difficulty for both children with language impairment (LI) and bilingual children. In contrast to previous research that mainly focused on verbal tense and agreement markings, the present study investigated whether plural and past participle formation can disentangle the effects of LI and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Blom, Elma; Vasic, Nada; de Jong, Jan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: In this study, the authors investigated whether errors with subject-verb agreement in monolingual Dutch children with specific language impairment (SLI) are influenced by verb phonology. In addition, the productive and receptive abilities of Dutch acquiring children with SLI regarding agreement inflection were compared. Method: An SLI…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Impairments, Monolingualism
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Blom, Elma; De Jong, Jan; Orgassa, Antje; Baker, Anne; Weerman, Fred – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Both children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children who acquire a second language (L2) make errors with verb inflection. This overlap between SLI and L2 raises the question if verb inflection can discriminate between L2 children with and without SLI. In this study we addressed this question for Dutch. The secondary goal of the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Children, Verbs